TREASURE highlights
There’s a host of entertainment heading to Derby Theatre...
THERE’S a whole season of talent coming to Derby Theatre. The venue has just announced its remaining shows for Spring 2020 and there’s everything from spectaculars to swashbuckling adventures lined up for theatre goers.
The big family-friendly, BSL integrated production for Easter is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Set sail on the high seas for a spectacular adventure from Saturday, March 28, until Saturday, April 11, with this pirate-filled production for all the family. It is brimming with a bountiful supply of live music, sumptuous sets and costumes.
From Tuesday, March 3, until Saturday, March 14, one of Shakespeare’s darkest and spookiest thrillers, Macbeth takes to the stage. Get ready for battles, murder and ghosts as the three witches on a heath set the story in motion.
From Tuesday, March 17, until Saturday, March 21, Derby Theatre, you can catch Crongton Knights. Life isn’t easy on the Crongton Estate and for McKay and his mates it’s all about keeping their heads down but when a friend finds herself in trouble, they set out on a mission that goes further than any of them imagined. Crongton Knights will take you on a night of madcap adventure as McKay and his friends “The Magnificent Six” encounter the dangers and triumphs of a mission gone awry. With a soundscape of beatboxing and vocals laid down by the cast and created by acclaimed musician Conrad Murray, Crongton Knights is about the friends you’ll never forget and how lessons learned the hard way can bring you closer together.
Rona Munro’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, runs from Monday, January 20, until Saturday, January 25. An 18-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come. Munro places the writer herself among the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.
Gwen Taylor returns to Derby Theatre in a thriller, The Croft, from Monday, January 27, until Saturday, February 1.
This is a bold and haunting new play based on a true story. In the remote Scottish Highlands two women arrive at a former Crofters Hut in the deserted village of Coillie Ghille. Suddenly the weekend getaway takes an unexpected turn. Cut off from the modern world, Laura and Suzanne find themselves drawn into the dark history of the Croft and the lives that passed before them.
Lightening the line-up is JM Barrie’s farce, Quality Street. It runs from Tuesday, April 14, until Saturday, April 18.
Ten years after a tearful goodbye, Phoebe Throssel assumes a glamorous alter ego to rekindle a romance with old flame Captain Valentine. Can she juggle both personas? Or will her deception scandalise the town and wreck any future with the man she loves?
Featuring a commentary from the Quality Street factory workers, whose own stories of hapless romance and growing old disgracefully give the show a playful Yorkshire twist.
Fans of dance and physical theatre will love these shows – Gary Clarke’s Wasteland, Gecko’s A Little Space and Curious Monkey’s Here.
Wasteland, from Thursday, February 6, until Friday, February 7, is a new dancetheatre sequel to Coal about the collapse of the mining community. Performed by dancers, a community cast of male singers, brass musicians, archive film footage, a powerful rave soundscore and unique artwork by Jimmy Cauty, the production dives head first into a gritty story of loss, hope, tragedy and survival based in the illegal rave scene of the 1990s.
Gecko’s, a little space, comes to Derby Theatre from Thursday February 27, until Saturday, February 29. It combines Gecko’s unique blend of theatre, choreography and imagery with performers from Mind The Gap, one of Europe’s leading learning disability theatre companies.
A powerful new play by Lindsay Rodden, Curious Monkey’s HERE, on from
Wednesday, April 22, until Thursday, April 23, is about finding sanctuary in the unlikeliest of places. About dancing on rooftops, blossom in winter, and rewriting the story of the city as your own. About two best friends with a library card, and the power they summon through friendship and books to make something magical. To say WE WERE HERE.
There’s a wealth of exciting touring productions for family audiences in the Main House and Studio this spring. Magicians, time travellers and all-round spiffing chaps, Morgan and West present their mix of captivating chemistry, phenomenal physics, and bonkers biology in Unbelievable Science on Monday, February 17.
On Thursday, February 20, Shark In The Park presents all three of Nick Sharratt’s Shark In The Park books live on stage. While on Sunday, March 8, BricaBrac Theatre present Mustard Doesn’t Go With Girls, an inclusive feminist musical for the modern child.
Tuesday, April 7, and Wednesday, April 8, will see Jamboree, a vibrant piece of gigtheatre made for and with teenagers who have profound and multiple disabilities.
For one night shows will see appearances from comedians Gary Delaney, Joel Dommett, Mark Steel, Kojo Anim, Andy Parsons, Jamali Maddix and Dane Baptiste whilst other one-night events include Sir Michael Parkinson, Ronnie Scott, McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle and Madam Butterfly.
A sneak preview of summer? Well, highlights include Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular, and Rhum and Clay’s The War Of The Worlds.